Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on Thursday ordered customs personnel in Port Irene to stop the release of more than 200 used cars and vans that arrived on Monday at the free port in Sta. Ana, Cagayan province.

The importation of the vehicles into the free port for resale in the country, apparently in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling, gave Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago the opportunity to draft a resolution seeking to investigate what she called “contumacious” operations in the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport (CSEZF).

The CSEZF was created by a 1995 law authored by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, with whom Santiago has been feuding over the “misuse” of Senate funds, when he was a member of the House of Representatives.

Biazon said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) would respect the Supreme Court decision affirming the validity of Executive Order No. 156 banning the importation of used vehicles, except for trucks, buses and special purpose vehicles.

“We’re just enforcing the law …. I have instructed all BOC officials assigned at the [CSEZF] not to process any vehicle importation pending the clarification on the finality of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming the constitutionality of EO 156,” Biazon said.

He said investors in the CSEZF could import vehicles for their use within the special economic zone and free port but these could not be taken out of the zone.

Certificate of finality

“We will seek a certificate of finality on the Supreme Court ruling on EO 156, and we will enforce whatever provisions and implementing rules the EO provides,” Biazon said.

Nilo Aldeguer, senior deputy administrator of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (Ceza), said on Wednesday that the shipment of more than 200 vehicles came from Incheon, South Korea.

Aldeguer said the shipment was covered by an import permit that was issued before the Supreme Court issued its decision.

He said it would be up to the BOC and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) if the Ceza, which runs the free port, would be allowed to process the papers for the vehicles.

Slump in sales

Then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued EO 156 in 2002 after members of the local car manufacturing industry complained of a slump in sales due to the importation of used cars at free-port zones like the CSEZF.

Claiming that the EO was unconstitutional, the Automotive Rebuilding Industry of Cagayan (Aric) obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) from a regional trial court (RTC) in Cagayan but the RTC in Aparri later affirmed the ban.

The case reached the Court of Appeals, which decided in September 2010 to lift the ban on the importation of used cars.

But in January 2013, the Supreme Court Second Division set aside the appellate court decision and affirmed the ruling of the Aparri court.

Open defiance

“The continued importation of used cars at Port Irene constitutes an open defiance of a decision of the Supreme Court,” Santiago said.

Santiago said the Supreme Court ruled that vehicles imported from abroad “may only be stored, used or traded, or exported out of Philippine territory, but cannot be imported into the Philippines outside of the secured fenced-in former Subic Naval Base area.”

“In effect, the Supreme Court ruling barred the importation of vehicles by the Cagayan Special Economic Zone,” Santiago said.

Santiago cited reports claiming that the Ceza refused to abide by the Supreme Court’s order because the permits were issued before the decision.

Santiago, in response, said that the date when the receipts were issued was immaterial since the constitutionality of EO 156 banning the importation of used cars was sustained by the Supreme Court in its decision in the Southwing case in 2006.

“It is absurd for the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority to claim that it could still import used vehicles for permits prior to the decision of the Supreme Court last Jan. 7,” Santiago said.

“Ceza has no authority to process import permits whether issued prior to the decision of the court last Jan. 7 or thereafter, since the court already upheld the constitutionality of EO 156 as early as 2006,” she added.

Prime mover

Santiago said she would call for a Senate probe to include Senator Enrile’s role in the importation of used cars in Cagayan.

“Mr. Enrile was the prime mover behind the CSEZF. Several years ago, he even arrogantly claimed that President Arroyo’s ban on the importation of used vehicles was unconstitutional, and with constant hubris, he also sharply criticized the Supreme Court for upholding the ban,” Santiago said.

Culture of impunity

Santiago said Enrile’s actions concerning the Cagayan port “seeks to bolster the culture of impunity,” or exemption from punishment.

Malacañang is ascertaining whether Ceza officials could be held liable for allowing the entry of the 200 second-hand vehicles on Monday into the free-port zone.

In a phone interview, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the Department of Justice had taken notice of these smuggling allegations at Port Irene.

A government-owned and -controlled corporation, Ceza was created by virtue of Republic Act No. 7922, otherwise known as the “Cagayan Special Economic Zone Act of 1995,” during the Ramos administration.

Enrile relative

Ceza is headed by Jose Mari B. Ponce, a relative of the Senate President.

Ceza’s website said Ponce was a career executive service professional with more than 20 years “of solid experience in the government service with expertise in resource mobilization and negotiations for Official Development Assistance, project development and management, agribusiness, integrated area development and rural development.”

Ponce previously served as acting agrarian reform secretary during the Arroyo administration.

Lacierda did not talk much about the implications of Ceza’s defying a Jan. 7 Supreme Court order that affirmed the constitutionality of EO 156 banning the importation of used vehicles.

Lacierda, however, forwarded a text message from Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.

De Lima’s take

“The issue involved is a legal issue. From the limited facts as reported in PDI’s (Philippine Daily Inquirer) banner story (Thursday), the issue appears to be this—whether or not the imported vehicles whose papers have allegedly been completed prior to the SC decision are covered by such a decision,” De Lima said.

“But then again, we need to get more facts/information on this, including a study of the SC decision itself,” De Lima added in the text message.

Biazon said the car importation issue at the CSEZF was “complicated” but the BOC would be guided by the final Supreme Court ruling.

“We will uphold the recent Supreme Court ruling and enforce all the provisions of EO 156 regarding restrictions on the importation of used cars,” he said.

“I advise car buyers to be sure of the vehicles they are buying and to get them only from legitimate sources and dealers,” he added.

The LTO will wait for its own formal copy of the Supreme Court decision before it implements any policy changes, agency chief Virginia Torres said.

“We haven’t received any formal communications from the court. We are waiting for that,” Torres said in an interview on Thursday. “We cannot make an official memo yet. We want to know if there are any exemptions,” Torres said.

She said that once the agency received a copy of the decision, the LTO would refer the matter to the Department of Transportation and Communications.

“We will forward the decision to them and they will advise us on what to do,” she said.

Jack: Follow SC ruling

Cagayan Rep. Juan “Jack” Ponce Enrile Jr., the son and namesake of the Senate President, said the Supreme Court order banning the importation of used cars in the country must be followed.

Those who have a problem with the Supreme Court ruling can contest it, but any such importation must stop in the meantime, said Enrile, a senatorial candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance.

“The Supreme Court has already issued an order, now it is up to the locators to find legal remedies. But since the order is already in effect, that must stop,” he told reporters in an ambush interview at the Tagbilaran airport, before his flight to Manila.

He said those found to be defying the order not to import used cars must be arrested.

Asked if he thought the importers were being bold because of possible protection from high officials, Enrile said he did not think that was the case.

If there were instances of importations in defiance of the ban, backed with documentary proof, such matters should be taken directly to the customs officials, to the mayor or to the governor, he said.

“If there is any documentation, I myself would have that stopped,” he said.

No defiance

A leader of the regional automotive industry and a lawyer for the car importation firm involved in the case said no defiance of the Supreme Court happened when more than 200 motor vehicles arrived early this week in Port Irene.

Jaime Vicente, president of Aric, said the shipment that came in was not imported by Forerunner Multi Resources Inc., the party to the case for which the high court lifted the TRO on EO 156.

Vicente, former president of Forerunner, said the cars were imported by another company, Fenix International, under the provisions of EO 418 that supposedly allowed the entry of second-hand motor vehicles.

“At no point in time did any company defy a Supreme Court ruling. When we were allowed to import, we imported. When we were disallowed, we stopped,” Vicente said in an interview in Makati City.

Marforth Fua, one of the legal counsels for Forerunner, added in the same interview that the Jan. 7 ruling of the Supreme Court had yet to decide on EO 156’s constitutionality.

“If you read the dispositive portion, it only rules on the issue of the injunction [on the EO] issued by the Court of Appeals. The main issue on the constitutionality is still with the RTC,” Fua said.—With a report from Paolo Montecillo

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bogli_anakdami

hoy mga flip gung gongs…. don’t believe it… kunyari lang yan…

check the whereabouts of the ukay-ukay cars, if your interested…

i got my bimmer delivered this morning…

http://profile.yahoo.com/UQXLAHQCCIEO3WMCTNZSWIE3AI Lagotka

Hoy born loser, gising ka na? Mag hahanap ka ba ng trabaho today?

dodong1

i am looking for one also saan…need one badly..

http://profile.yahoo.com/BFQWTB3Z6DK76IWGHUMC4NO5JY Isang Pilipino

OK now let’s see how King Enrile will use his power to fight the Supreme Court and the Bureau of Customs!

02. De Lima is reluctant to act on the issue, treading carefully against a powerful JPE.

03. What’s stopping this government from mustering all its zealousness to link JPE to the smuggling and arrest him? It did so quite successfully against Corona and Arroyo. PNoy’s administration should be able to use AMLC and the BIR to go after JPE. Where’s the political will?

Kita nyo naman ni hindi natitinag sa pwesto, meron pang vote of confidence. You have to appreciate the “genius” of JPE. Hirap yung puro ngawa tapos wala naman gawa. Everybody is threading a line simply because after all these years, admit it or not JPE has endured.

I’m no fan of Senator Santiago but if she can pull this investigation through, she earns my respect. Good luck!

Noel

Unfortunately, Miriam has exposed so many corruption but none ever prospers.

AllinLawisFair

She should not tire until she succeeds.

http://profile.yahoo.com/ZWFLSTSBRRAVDDPF7NZ5OT6AEA Jim

Port Irene was really conceivedby Enrile as an easy gateway of imported products to the Philippines. He really planned the port to be one of his crown jewels in his kingdom of Cgayan.

Loggnat

Unfortunately, The Angara of Aurora is following the Enrile’s strategy of having its own crown jewel in their own kingdom in Aurora. What is unfortunate is that the Aquino administration seems to condone the Angara’s ambition with the Aurora free-port that it allotted more money from Congress to continue its creation. I hope Aquino will wake up and at least make it a requirement for the Aurora Free-port to prohibit any of the Angara clan to be in its top management echelon to prevent it from being used like the Cagayan free-port by the Enrile clan.

Why not just call a spade a spade. Smuggling is rampant in Cagayan and the free port officials, BOC, and the Enriles are all in cahoot! Period! Some people must be charged and jailed!

AllinLawisFair

President Aquino does not owe anything from anyone aside from his bosses, the Filipino people. He cannot run for the same office which he now holds and therefore he does not need to ask favors from anyone.

Now is the time for him to get even with this powerful Enrile who was the enforcer of martial law and was one of the main figures who made life hard for the Aquino family.It is not to say that he should be vindictive but the President can get even by enforcing the law regardless of who gets hurt.

$20722540

you are simply playing with words

AllinLawisFair

Totoo naman, di ba?

Simon Ward

Please, just revisit EO 156 and fix it! All these problems will go away. In the meantime, I thank Miriam once again for extending my English vocabulary. I will endeavor to use “contumacious” the next chance I get :)

FRPSR

I had linked it with contumely , i.e. , Achilles angry protest to Agamemnon . A quick peek at the dictionary exposed the weakness there !

Sana matuldukan na ito… Mabuhay kayo at that’s the way it should be – being RESPONSIVE!

Pedro

dapat kasi i-ban na ang secondary vehicles sa pilipinas!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2YAYHPL4WJCO4FGRTUY56DUSNU maria

Only a small percentage can own brand new cars in the Philippines.

Maybe what can be done is to legalize the entry of used cars but with certain limitations like not more than 3 years old (not junks), good exhaust system, good set of tires, etc. meaning it should not “die” in the streets.

Even though Sen .Miriam is like a “lost missile” from it’s trajectory,i give her the benefit of doing something to ferret out the truth and what the Filipinos need to know.
Go ahead Maam!! Flush out some more intestines so we will be educated of the murky secrets of politics.We welcome the initiative.If you want to investigate Sen.Enrile,so be it.Mukha kasing takot si Presidente na mag initiate.It’s about time that the old man from Cagayan needs to be querried.He’s been daring to be investigated.Sobrang yabang ni Cagayano!!.

33Sambuang2

bangon ilongo. bisan buangit ka gamay miriam pero isog ka

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2YAYHPL4WJCO4FGRTUY56DUSNU maria

Only a small percentage can own brand new cars in the Philippines. Maybe what can be done is to legalize the entry of used cars but with certain limitations like not more than 3 years old (not junks), good exhaust system, good set of tires, etc. meaning it should not “die” in the streets.

indiosbravos2002

I think brand new cars are overpriced, however, we should also consider the employment opportunities being provided by local car manufacturers. If 2nd hand cars will eat up shares of brand new ones, local companies might layoff workers from their factories, as well as, sales/marketing people.

it will be a bad ending for JPE -:) history will judge you and you can’t paint or tweak it

Noel

Trash is now coming out of JPE who managed to keep his evil deeds for a long time.

tonyoks

Cagayan Rep. Juan “Jack” Ponce Enrile Jr., the son and namesake of the Senate President, said the Supreme Court order banning the importation of used cars in the country must be followed.

Asked if he thought the importers were being bold because of possible protection from high officials, Enrile said he did not think that was the case.

so what’s the case???

and the man is trying to sell himself to be our senator???

ewAN KO lang kung may maniniwala pa sa mga-amang killers nato…

Anqui

Easy Lang eto…Young Enrile running for a Senate Seat comes out clean on his statement for votes. He’s learning the ropes of smart Politiking from Johnny. Please do yourselves a Big favor…DO NOT VOTE FOR THE ENRILES on May 2013.

Noel

It should have been acted long ago. Due to Enrle’s protection, smugglong at the Cagayan Port has gone on for a long time.

rodben

EO 156 is no way to Noy2 administrations because this is GMA EO, malas ngalang nabuking ng Media sorry mga AMIGO’s….Mr. Biazon you are now qualified to become Police Patola laging huli sa action…

33Sambuang2

supot

w33k3nd3r

Good job, Miriam!!! Nail Enrile and his kutis betl0g face to the ground with this!!! His family’s been smuggling cars and other sh1t through that port ever since 1995!!! Make sure Jackie doesn’t win a seat! We’re through with their full o $h1t family!

indiosbravos2002

Santiago’s enemy is really Enrile. Ping is just a decoy, primarily used to distract attention. The issue with the pork barrel will never come out unless fed by Enrile to Lacson. Unfortunately for Enrile, Santiago is locked focus. Eventhough, verbal tirades have been thrown with Ping, Enrile’s a$$ is still hot in her radar. I guess Santiago is just too hot and too crazy for Enrile and Lacson to handle.

mabyrik

Biazon should get into the the bottom of this mess at all costs. If it falls on Enrile’s laps, so be it and then charge him.

Enrile has already done a lot of damage in this country, which started way back in 1972, when he ambushed himself to justify ML, coup-de-etat, dagdag-bawas, rampant smuggling in Port Irene, etc, and the latest crime was his Christmas gifts to fellow senators using people’s money to buy loyalty.

His crimes to the people of the Philippines, in particular and to the country in general is reaching infinity and appears to be endless.

It’s a blessing that there is one senator whose balls are bigger than Enrile’s balls who will take the cudgels for the people-Miriam. Miriam-GO-we are solidly behind you.

Enrile must be exposed through legal means for it appears he will still be alive for several more years and it is very frightening.

For as long as this ev/il in black suit is alive, he will continue to inflict damages upon damages to this nation. Chief of them is his grand plan to bring a spoiled brat named Jackie Enrile to senate, designed to perpetuate the crimes he had initiated and is continuously doing so.

There are 3 months left before election and at this time, enrile’s ratings have already gone down considerably and he will carry with him his bratty kid who was also charged with murders in his youth. Let us sustain this information dissemination until all the people are made aware that Enrile and his son do not deserve hero’s treatment, only condemnation. Enrile’s losses are the nation’s gains.

How can we trust the future of this country into the hands of a criminal son abetted by equally mindless and ruthless father? It doesn’t make sense. It is horrific and a HUGE DISASTER.

DO NOT VOTE FOR JACKIE ENRILE, REMEMBER ALFIE ANIDO!!!

DO NOT VOTE FOR NANCY BINAY, JV AND HONASAN.

Dax Cogitlog

Good job Mabyrik! it is now the time to hit them back even if it is minimal…let us campaign against them thru social media..

AllinLawisFair

Kasama ako dyan.

NoWorryBHappy

Jaime Vicente, president of Aric, said the shipment that came in was not
imported by Forerunner Multi Resources Inc., the party to the case for
which the high court lifted the TRO on EO 156.
:
OMG !!!
KATANGAHAN naman !
EO 156 APPLIES to EVERY FILIPINO AND ANY FILIPINO !
Naku Jaime Vicente, talagang manloloko ka !
Pati Supreme Court ginagawa mong TANGA !
Siguro, nagasta mo na ang sinuhol sa iyo.
At abogado ka pa. ‘kamo ? Acheche, Attorney LAWAY.

sam_aquino

patay kang matanda ka!!!

Vincent_Bugaboo

Miriam is bent on sending John-john to Muntinlupa. When that happens there will be a Mardi-Gras-like celebration on the streets of Manila. Kaya mag-training na tayong lahat ng
pag-kilig-kilg ng wetpu! Yey!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4R3GZTGML26TV2VGS6RVHP2THM Fred

Ang daming nagbulag-bulagan,
buti na lang binulgar ng Inquirer!
This will be the start of miserable lives
for officials of CSEZA.

if bayagra enrile is CONVICTED of any crime, any crime at all, petty or not, i’ll refrain from iyuting for a week…

ANY TAKER/S???

http://profile.yahoo.com/KNWCMVMPABEZBCMA36S7FJAKQM orchid

Great! Don’t let these cars enter the Philippines. The last time I’ve read about importation of cars thru this port, Enrile was almost screaming his lungs out protecting this import business. Well, Lolo Enrile, your bluff is out, you and your relatives and cronies have business interests in trying to keep this used car import business thriving.

Don’t vote for Jackie Enrile! This is an example of what is to come should this Jackie Enrile is elected as a senator. Another 6 years with another dimwitted politician in the senate and joining Lapid, Sotto, Estrada, Revilla, Marcos, Lacson, Trillanes, and Honasan as part time senators and full time actors, comedians, and thieves.

We got rid of Arroyo who is the executive branch’ Queen of Impunity, and Corona, the Judicial branch’ King of Impunity. When can we get rid of the Legislative King of Kings of Impunity Juan Ponce Enrile? Tutuluyan na natin ang amoy lupang ito ng tumino na ang Pilipinas.

ApoLapullapu

It was Arroyo through Executive Order No. 156 who banned used car importation. It was the Bureau of Customs that are sleeping on their jobs.

Dy Pailad

How do you stop the implementation of that EO? Put her BFF in CEZA like Uriarte. Viola, the EO was dead as nail.

ApoLapullapu

And after two years in power, the President is still not as powerful as Enrile? How can Santiago beat Enrile? Or do we need Santiago in Malacañang instead of the incumbent?

$42337655

Medyo matatagalan pang gumising ng todo ang bayan atin. Pagnatutunan ng investors from industrialized countries that it is worthwhile to invest in P.I. (vs. abusive, swell-headed China) and Pinoys are well fed (easily affordable daily food), well educated (really good education for the masses); the middle class is strong and healthy and educated and the poor are less and less in numbers then and only then can we decide intelligently who the good leaders are and make a difference. We can make a start of it now, yes, and this is worthwhile.
Kapag gutom ka and do not know where to get the next meal at pag hindi ka educated, madali kang lokohin, madali kang utuin, madali kang takutin. The wily politicians know this. They also know that it is all a numbers game and so they cater to the easily-fooled and poor masses who they manipulate year-in and year-out.
Until the well-fed and well-educated and well-mobilised people win the numbers game (a strong middle class), then it will always be an uphill climb. But, yes, we will get there. It is a matter of time.

Papaano mapunta kay Enrile? All government owned and controlled corporations are under the Executive Branch of Government. That was why then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 156 banning the importation of used cars because there was a complaint from local car manufacturers that there was a drop in their sales because of used cars importation. It is up for the Executive Branch to implement Executive Order No. 156. And it appears that Commissioner Biazon is doing his job..

Dy Pailad

By putting Uriarte in CEZA the EO was dead then a TRO from SC delivered the final blew until its recent ruling. Who do you think put Uriarte there? GMA? Enrile? If you know horse trading you know what I mean.

ApoLapullapu

And the President cannot do anything about the situation? After two years in Malacañang he has not acquired enough power to control CEZA? How lamentable!

Vincent_Bugaboo

So why is Santiago painstakingly trying to find evidence to implicate Enrile to the operation? Ibig mong sabihin clean as a whistle si Enrile at zero-zero balance s’ya rito dahil all goverment-owned and controlled corporations are under the Executive Branch? And that it should be taken at face value that profits are all remitted to this branch because CEZA is under it?

Why don’t you try to get a grip on DY Pailad’s insinuation below, or read between the lines?

ApoLapullapu

Because she is aggrieved that she got only 250 thousand while the other Senators got 1.6 Million.

In this case, the BOC top brass must be on top of the situation. Biazon should tell his man at Port Irene not to be intimidated. What will happen here is that lots of money may change hands or something else serious could happen. Make sure that the 200 imported vehicles will not be replaced or moved out without the knowledge of the port security. Baka ikarga pabalik kunwari and then diverted for dropping off somewhere else.

niceguy60

In the first place why import used cars? These are inefficient polluting vehicles. They are the garbage of the countries where they came from. Stop using those obsolete used cars.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TSX56EQOQIJQWG42MHQLSZOPXI Flugie

All of those who are car nuts know who is the “power” behind Port Irene. Importing vehicles has been going on for years even if it was declared illegal several years ago.

The Executive Branch is responsible for implementing the laws on government owned and controlled corporation. So, the Bureau of Customs must do their job. I cannot understand why a Senator is being blamed on what is a clear lapse of the Bureau of Customs.

Dy Pailad

You do not know who owns CEZA. It is government own on paper but Enrile calls the shots. Walang puedeng ihire as directors without his blessings. That is one of the reasons why the family must stay in power else they wont be able to protect their business interests.

ApoLapullapu

In that case the President will appear like a scarecrow! What a pity.

Dy Pailad

In regard the importation of secondhand cars, which is the issue at hand, Enrile was able to secure a TRO that was enforced until this present SC decided with finality about the illegality of it. With the TRO, Pnoy or customs could not enforce GMA’s EO. Regarding who controls CEZA, it is one of those games played at high places, which ordinary mortals do not see. Obviously the Senate President knows his leveraging power, which an ordinary senator doesn’t enjoy.

Vincent_Bugaboo

Either you are naive or you are an apologist for Enrile because you are his sychopant.

Ceza’s website said Ponce was a career executive service professional with more than 20 years “of solid experience in the government service with expertise in resource mobilization and negotiations for Official Development Assistance, project development and management, agribusiness, integrated area development and rural development.”

How come LTFRB and LTO is very silent about this matter!
PDI media should at least take their reaction regarding this mess or this two offices is under the influence of high ranking govt officials. Abaya should have a reaction on this matter since he is the DOTC man too.
No reation means their part of this mess!!

johnlordphilip

Enrile and Ponce are claiming the EO is unconstitutional because it is against their financial interests!!!

doublecross

pera-pera lang yan….

walang’ya. paano na kayo tayo aahon nito?

http://inquirer.net unokritiko

Even thought it came out in the news, it will pass the BOC, LTO, and LTFRB. The papers of this shipment is already done. also the under the table payment is done except they forgot the SC on this matter.
This will be converted to UNA funds for their election finances!!
So vote for UNA you filipino indiots!!!!!

Bureau of Custom stops cars and vans shipment that arrived
at the free port at Sta Ana Cagayan, obviously intended for “media show-off” to
cool off the steaming issue between Philippine Cars Manufacturers Association petition
against the Traders of imported second hand vehicles. Later afterwards when
prying around abated… second hand cars sales will resume to normal. “Gusto Ko,
Naka-Kotse Ka” CEZA by the way, is functioning under the care
of the Office of the President.

Ganymede

You mean, CEZA is functioning under the care of the Office of the Senate President.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SC573R5VTMJ6ISRH635DJ2XVLI San

How does this affect the already out-on-the-road “B” plated cars that came from Port Irene? Deficiency taxes?

calixto909

Ceza is the milking cow of Enrile and his son Jackie. This matter came to fore sometime last year when many imported hot cars were found in their place of business in a sprawling property thereat Cagayan owned by them. Sale of imported vehicles and cars is one of the dozen lucrative business of the Enrile’s. It’s not then surprising that CEZA head Ponce and relative of Enrile had defied the SC Order because his boss Enrile is ever present to protect him since he is an expert in court litigation which he (Enrile) had bragged during his word war with Santiago lately. Parang nakasandal sa pader si Ponce kaya wala siyang takot na makulong kahit SC pa ang kalaban kasi nandiyan naman si manong Johnny na batikang abugado.

It’s incumbent upon the DOJ Secretary de Lima to conduct an impromptu investigation on this matter since a big fish linked to this car syndicate is involved.

http://twitter.com/ernestonoel1 hopelovefaith

Enrile has done so much for his country. All his career was devoted to public service and he would not be able to have this long political career without the trust and respect of the Filipinos and his colleagues.

The government appears to be doing something about this
problem now because it is on the news media. In a few weeks, without the scrutiny
of the media, everything will be back to normal and the smugglers and their
government coddlers will be back at it, making enormous amounts of money for
themselves. Customs is one of the most corrupt government departments in the
country and corruption goes from top to bottom.

ben311

biazon corrupt din yan !

patawad

Baka hindi siya “in” kaya kumontra!

Pert Cabatana

Enrile must resign immediately. His person has been implicated in so many scandals already. Filipino culture has been so burdened by such kapit-tuko habits (Marcos, Gwen Garcia, Binay, etc.) that we’ll never really significantly demonstrate societal progress unless this particular bad habit is erased from our psyche. Shame, shame, shame, Enrile.

Enrile’s only son Jackie Enrile was a notorious killer who killed several people including alfie anido.
Let us also not forget about Tito Sotto’s involvement in the Pepsi Paloma and Guada Guarin 1982 rape scandal.

ztefertilizerscam10

“The Chicago Tribune reported 15
years ago that Enrile’s wife Cristina walked out on him in January 1998
after charging adultery. The Tribune also reported that the “other woman
“ was Gigi Gonzales-Reyes, Enrile’s chief of staff, about 30 years
his junior.”

4X coup attempt against Cory..
Aug 28,1987 rebellionJuan Ponce Enrile charged with involvement in the bloody military rebellion on Aug 28,1987 that left at least nine people dead.

ztefertilizerscam10

Don’t vote UNA…
MGA MAGNANAKAW!!!!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_44JMK2UGPXICPBKLDGLKPXLXWQ Loy

It seems that this tabloid masquerading as a broadsheet is again “nakuryente”. It is trying to establish an aura of self righteousness but it was not reading the SC Resolution. The news item itself refers to a Ms. Fua who says that the SC Resolution is only about the injunction and never on the issue of the constitutionality of the EO. So what defiance of an SC ruling is this tabloid talking about? Is the paper trying to make a slant of the news because it has an axe to grind against Manong Juanito? Or the not-so-bright-boys from the Pasig are not so “bright” after all for not reading the SC Resolution itself? It becomes more pathetic that pencil-pushers, laggards and do-gooders parrot their line as if they have the monopoly of truth, fairness and justice.

kilabot

boc could not stop rice smuggling;
boc could not stop meat smuggling;
boc could not meet collection target ever;
what makes you think boc can stop car smuggling?

Horst Manure

Boc can not reply to E mails to help customers.

johnvforeighner

They do not reply as you did not also submit your back door payment hehehe

ynigooctaviano

This smuggling in “Cagayan Freeport” has been going on for the longest. Ang solusyon diyan ay mag-takeover na ang national government sa operasyon and go ahead with the investigation of the local officials. Ano ba ang ikinatatakot ni Penoy kay Lolong Enrile? What are you in power for? The people voted him to stop this smuggling whoever they are. No sacred cows.
This is Penoy’s chance to get even with Lolong Enrile who planned coup d’état againsts Pres, Cory killing many innocent civilians. This is culture of impunity literally.

Enrile gave a whopping bonus of 1.6 million pesos each to 18 senators last Christmas. It is interesting to note that rather than hand over unused funds back to the treasury, Enrile saw it fit to distribute the so-called “savings” to Senate employees as a personal gift. According to the same report, even drivers and security personnel in the senate got bonuses ranging from 50,000.00 to 120,000.00 pesos.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RWPOD4ER5LJPDQU3N32NAC74X4 johnnie r

Hitting Enrile where it will hurt the most, his pocket…I sure babawi ito, he will hit Pnoy where it will hurt the most too…2013 election votes sa Region 2.

antiscam

No problem coz Region 2 is not vote rich. Whatever loss of votes Pnoy wil incur in Cagayan Region it will be more than compensated by the backlash of votes against Enrile from the vote rich & politically sophisticated regions of Cebu, Iloilo and NCR.

slightly used Hummer luxury vehicles coming from the port of LA loaded in vans and shipped to port irene. In 2012, there were over 20 Hummer units that were shipped by the gang headed by the son-in-law of Johnny Enrile.

ARREST the IMPORTER,——— It is ILLEGAL and CAN NOT JUST let this IMPORTER to REMAIN CRIMINAL——
WALA na PONG SINASANTO and BATAS———-Ang BATAS po and AARESTO sa mga KRIMINAL na yan at DI PO ang kalaban sa POLITIKA——

http://freemindonline.blogspot.com/ FreemindOnline

It’s a matter of not doing their mandated responsibility or let others do the job of not doing the mandated responsibility at all. Either way they get paid to foot drag what should have been done and worst not doing anything at all.

A common strategy of corrupt officials to NOT know but very well knowing during election period.

A strategy to wait for orders and orders alone without penalty.

A strategy of all talk, all news, all pictures, all finger pointing, all name dropping.

Expect no arrest, no jail terms, not high level officials who made this possible!

$14141131

Had the bureau of customs been doing its job sincerely, the Philippines will not become a junkyard of neighboring countries. The high no. of vehicular accidents is the result of this junked-recycled vehicles sold in the country. You can be lucky if you can see in a day a brand-new car in the streets. From buses to trucks to firetrucks to jeepneys – all are former junks reconditioned for the buyers. And this businesses are also used as front of drug dealers.

julieboy

GARAPALAN na talaga!!!!!!what else is new.

Eddie AAA Calderon

It’s a very sad commentary to see that a governmental institution will not obey the decision of the Supreme Court which is the personification of the rule of law.

Just wish that other governmental institutions will not follow suit and then we will have anarchy in the Philippines.

Just a bit more negotiation and time for people to forget then everything will be fine.

http://profile.yahoo.com/VS5EYSP4FPOTVQCJZ24NRE6Z2M Edgardo Mendoza

CUSTOM MGA MAG NANAKAW YUNG MGA OPISYAL JAN SUNUGIN!

Avery_23

Why only a ban on importation of second hand cars? Second hand trucks, buses and other vehicles, in fact all vehicles that are second hand, must not be allowed to be imported. Why isn’t there an EO on this? Does PNOY want more pollution in the Philippines from these smoke belching, road-unworthy second hand vehicles? Or maybe he or someone he knows is operating as importers of second-hand trucks, buses, etc?